Bayan Academy has partnered with the Zuellig Family Foundation (ZFF) in a four-phase research and training project which aims to improve local health ecosystems in various jurisdictions through capacity building interventions for health officers. Last March, the Bayan Academy-ZFF partnership commenced with the first phase of the project -- a local health ecosystem analysis of Bataan province.
The primary objective of the local health ecosystem analysis is to holistically map out the health ecosystem of Bataan. Using a qualitative research approach, the study aims to provide an in-depth understanding of the health ecosystem of Bataan, understand the existing dynamics and structures among health actors in the community, and look into the experiences of the Bataan residents with regard to receiving health services.
Bayan Academy tapped Karen Ongtangco, MSOT, MRS, OTRP, OTR as the research lead for the Bataan health ecosystem project. Ms. Ongtangco was supervised by Bayan Academy Chairman and President Dr. Eduardo Morato, Jr. and Consultancy and Research Technologies Director Carlo Sagun. A research associate assisted in data gathering. From March to May, key health actors and stakeholders at the regional, provincial, municipal, and barangay levels were interviewed for the study. A total of 14 key informant interviews and eight focus group discussions were conducted to get an in-depth picture of the province's health ecosystem. These include interviews with local government officials, municipal health officers, hospital directors; and focus group discussions with barangay health workers and residents of Bataan. Additionally, the researchers collected and reviewed relevant documents to aid the analysis. The research findings have been presented to key ZFF officers and will be used in the succeeding phases of the project.
The Bataan local health ecosystems analysis and the development of the manual are parts of Phase 1 of the Zuellig Family Foundation Local Health Ecosystems Research and Training" project. Phase 2 covers trainings on strategic planning and management of a local health ecosystem for relevant ZFF officers and partners, which include provincial health officers and provincial health team leaders. The Health Ecosystem Research Manual developed in the first phase will be used for this training.
For Phase 3, insights from the previous provincial trainings will be documented through manuals for provincial health officers and provincial team leaders. Lastly, Phase 4 will focus on the training of health officers at the municipal level. This covers training on the different management processes and designing, developing, and delivering social marketing projects. A Health Project Management Training Workbook will also be developed as material for this phase's training. Bayan Academy consultants and writers have been tapped for these initiatives.
Prior to this engagement, ZFF partnered with Bayan Academy in 2013 for its "Management for Health Development" program. ZFF has been at the forefront of improving health systems in rural Filipino communities. It provides capacity building and management training programs for local government units and local health leaders in its commitment to improve health conditions in the country.


With New York Fashion Week underway, all eyes were trained on the BCBG Max Azria presentation for key indicators of casting trends for the Fall/Winter 2013 season. An opening or closing slot in BCBG's presentation generates a deluge of interest which translates to blue chip appeal as the show season unfolds. Last season, French newcomer Marine Deleeuw, cashed in on her opening slot at BCBG with a staggering 47 show tally by the close of the collections. Casting director Jess Hallett outlined BCBG's aesthetic for this season, "We're looking for girls who have a strong walk, who are confident and can carry themselves very well, but aren't too young. With this collection we're looking more for tomboys, someone who is kind of edgy with a little street style element to them."
And so as the lights dimmed, BCBG's new model army converged on the runway led by newcomers Nikola Romanova, Aleksandra Zieminska, Margita Zuchova, Meng Huang and closing with Serbian stunner Mila Mihaljcic. In between were a flurry of last season's most coveted faces including Kayley Chabot, Nastya Kusakina, Chiharu Okunugi, Esther Heesch, Elena Bartels, Manon Le Loup, Magdalena Jasek, Grace Mahary, and Pauline Hoarau. Of the eclectic and ethnically diverse show line-up, Hallett enthused "Each girl has to have their own identity and brings something to the table, but you also need to think of it as a whole. It's not just individuals, you have to think does that girls work with the other girls? There has to be a kind of thought throughout the whole process because while you are looking for individuals, you have to think of it in terms of the bigger picture."


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Declan strikes gold a fantastic five times
Declan celebrates on the podium.
Published: 11:00 Wednesday 17 August 2016
Declan Bennett, a swimmer and track athlete from Woodhall Spa, has triumphed at this year's British Transplant Games.
Declan, 17, won an impressive five gold medals at the games in Liverpool, which were held from July 28-31.
Declan Bennett.
This follows The Elite Fish & Chip Company sponsoring the young star with £1,500 back in February.
Declan competed in a total of five events, swimming 50m and 100m freestyle, 50m butterfly and running 100m and 200m track.
On top of his haul of medals, Declan was also presented with the Westfield Health British Transplant Games Best 15-17 Athlete award.
"It is an honour to have received this award," explained Declan.
"I also won the same prize two years ago, but unfortunately I wasn't there to collect the award and only got sent a certificate.
"I am very happy with my performance and medals.
"I'm even more pleased to have been there to receive the prize in person this time."
Despite discovering at a young age that he had chronic renal failure – a condition that meant he needed a kidney transplant at the age of seven - Declan hasn't let his health problems hold him back.
At last year's 20th World Transplant Games in Argentina, he put on a show-stopping performance, bringing home seven gold medals.
Now, as he graduates from the junior section, Declan has his sights set on competing at the 21st World Transplant Games in Malaga, Spain, next year, where he hopes to continue his recent success.
Rachel Tweedale, from The Elite Fish and Chip Company, said: "We are very proud to have sponsored and supported Declan. His continued success is inspirational.
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NASHUA – There was a moment during Barack Obama's rally at Nashua North High School on Saturday when I thought, Wow, Iowa has gone to his head.
But now, with Iowa as his witness, Obama is he starting to sound like he believes the prophecies, too. The "epiphany" line was a joke—but he also kind of meant it. Because he's loose on the stump, self-deprecating yet cocky, Obama gets away with appropriating the language of his own deification. He mocks it, but at the same time reinforces it. It's hard to be humble when your overflow room is overflowing.
There were other moments of self-puffery. At one point, he introduced a volunteer as the chair of "Obamans for—" He caught himself. "Nashuans for Obama." However innocently, Obama had just bestowed himself with fame's highest honor: his very own adjectival form.
Then there was his refrain: "In three days' time …" Politicians always go out of their way to mention the specific date of the election—"Go vote for me on Jan. 8"—just to pound the date into dumb voters' heads. But he repeated the phrase so much it started to sound like a rosary. "In three days' time," he said, voters would have the chance to make history. "In three days' time," they could send a message to Washington that the old days are over. Not just "in three days" or "three days from now." "In three days' time," the rock will be rolled away and lo, the tomb will be empty.
Obama's speaking style, with its preacherly repetitions and rhythms, is nothing new. But the content of his speech—if you stop and actually listen to it—is aggressively vapid. "This change thing is catching on," he told people. He's running, as he always says, because of "what Dr. King called the 'fierce urgency of now' ." Here's the closest he came to defining "hope": It's "imagining, then working for, then righting for what didn't seem possible before." But in the final days before the primary, when the three top Democrats have such similar platforms, you don't win by reading position papers. You win with catharsis.
After watching the speech, Matt Dibella, 20, from Nashua, said he was initially undecided. I asked who he's for now. "Obama," he said. "Because I just saw him." That seems to be the way it works for many young people: To see him is to be for him.
Others fear the messiah analogy is a little too apt. "The thing I'm worried about is that he's going to get shot," said a woman from Boston who preferred not to give her name. "What he's been saying scares people." You hear this idea all over, particularly among African-Americans in the South , often as a reason to vote for someone else.
But the driving message of his speech was, See what Iowa did? You can do it, too. By the end, the crowd was erupting, signs were waving, and if you looked real close, you could see the ceiling windows emitting a thousand little golden shafts of light.


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Cheese Stores Galore
It doesn't happen very often, but two new cheese shops opened in Wisconsin within a day of each other last week, one in Milwaukee and the other in Madison. This is extremely good news for us cheese-starved Wisconsites.
WHAT???? Yes, I hear you saying – cheese-starved Wisconsites?
Well, let me be the first to tell you that while you may think it's easy to find good cheese in a retail setting in this state — as we're America's Dairyland and all — it's actually not. More than 90 percent of all cheese made here is shipped to the coasts. In fact, I've had better luck buying Wisconsin artisan cheese in San Francisco and New York grocery stores than my local grocery store, although admittedly, it costs twice as much.
In any case, all that is about to change, thanks to two entrepreneurs who decided to end the retail dearth of Wisconsin artisan cheese.
First, there's the West Allis Cheese & Sausage Shoppe at the corner of S. 69th and W. Becher streets in West Allis. When the original store burned down in February, owners Mark and Linda Lutz knew immediately they would rebuild. The result is a spacious, well-lit, modern-looking cheese store carrying 250 cheeses from around the world, U.S., and yes, Wisconsin. Gone however, is the terrazzo floor, the marble-topped checkout desk and the rest of the Old World ambiance the former store boasted.
However, if you're looking for Old World ambiance, Fromagination at 12 S. Carroll Street on the Capitol Square in Madison, fits the bill. With its reclaimed slate floor, vintage fans, old clocks, antique shopping baskets and wide selection of Wisconsin artisan cheeses, this particular store has answered the cheese prayers of south-central Wisconsin consumers.
Owner Ken Monteleone (pictured above) was absolutely packed on opening day — in fact, there was a line-up of five deep all along the counter waiting to buy cheese, with one man repeatedly wailing at the top of his voice, "It's so wonderful – I feel like I'm in Italy again!" This being Madison, no one gave him a second look.
Ken is featuring exclusive Wisconsin artisan cheeses for the first 30 days he is open, and then plans to expand his coolers to include cheeses from around the world and U.S. in time for the holidays. He also offers a small lunch counter, catering, gift baskets and an entire store full of "perfect companions" for cheese. This could indeed by my new favorite place in the world.
Congrats to both the Lutzes and Monteleone for giving Wisconsin much-needed retail space for Wisconsin artisan cheese!
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I think of it as FromagiNATION – more of a worldly approach to Wisconsin cheese. It was fun to bring craft beer to the table for a tasting on October 16. Thanks, Jeanne! cheers, Lucy
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Q: TextView won't show up? (Android) Trying to use an integer that will increase by 1 each time the ImageButton is pressed, and in MainActivity I declared this:
int x = 0;
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private void configureImageButton() {
        ImageButton btn = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.imageButton1);
        btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                TextView ed = (TextView) findViewById (R.id.textView1);
                ed.setText (""+x++);
            }
        });
    }

and in the fragment_main xml file I declared this:
(Edited to include whole fragment_main file)
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context="com.onemanbanned.firstapp.MainActivity$PlaceholderFragment" >

    <ImageButton
        android:id="@+id/imageButton1"
        android:layout_width="130dp"
        android:layout_height="100dp"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:contentDescription="@string/desc"
        android:src="@drawable/rancher" />

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:contentDescription="@string/desc"
        android:layout_below="@+id/imageButton1"
        android:src="@drawable/mint" />

    <TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@+id/imageButton1"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:ems="120"
    android:background="#f00">

        <requestFocus />
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</RelativeLayout>

But I still get no display of the textView1 in the Graphical Layout. I am new to Android, sorry :/

A: Please post your complete layout file - i am guessing its a RelativeLayout?
I have given your layout a quick try - and looks like everything is in order. Can you try setting a background color for your textview?
<TextView
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    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@+id/imageButton1"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:ems="120"
    android:background="#f00">

Am afraid the textview is there, but you cant see it.

A: You have your TextView and your ImageView below the ImageButton. If you want the TextView to be under the ImageView:
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<ImageButton
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    android:layout_above="@+id/imageView1"
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    android:layout_below="@+id/imageView1"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">

    <requestFocus />
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Home National News Glion's student-operated gastronomic restaurant Le Bellevue awarded 16 Gault Millau points
Glion's student-operated gastronomic restaurant Le Bellevue awarded 16 Gault Millau points
New Delhi: Glion Institute of Higher Education, a world-leading hospitality management institution, opened its student-operated gastronomic restaurant Le Bellevue in March 2018, which received 15 points in the Gault Millau Guide Switzerland last year, after only six months of operation. Today's edition of the renowned guide renewed its praise and awarded 16 points to the unique restaurant perched above Montreux, Switzerland.
The guidebook describes the Bellevue as "undeniably one of the most beautiful restaurants of the country," with a "modern and elegant décor."
Set in a warm Belle Époque atmosphere with breath-taking views of Lake Geneva and the Alps, the restaurant is named after the iconic hotel originally located in the 19th century building. The restaurant was carefully renovated in 2018 to integrate the spectacular and unobstructed view, while conserving all historic elements of the old Bellevue room which is protected as a listed monument.
The review praises the style and character of the cuisine, emphasizing the anthology of dishes and the expertise of its teaching staff: Dominique Toulousy led the Bellevue and a two-star Michelin restaurant for over 20 years and retired last summer, handing over to David Alessandria, holder of the Prix Prosper Montagné and Mickael Marini, under the guidance of Benoît Carcenat, culinary arts director for Sommet Education and Meilleur Ouvrier de France 2015 (MOF) in cuisine who served over 10 years as sous chef at the Hôtel de Ville in Crissier.
Under the guidance of these experts and in groups of up to 15, first-semester students spend two weeks immersed in culinary roles and two weeks immersed in service roles at Le Bellevue. This low student-instructor ratio and personalised learning approach enables students, often with no prior experience, to operate a 16 points Gault Millau restaurant.
"This recognition is a testimony to the excellence of our culinary and service expertise, and a reflection of our commitment to providing students with an exceptional learning experience," said Georgette Davey, Glion's Managing Director.
The Gault Millau restaurant guide was founded in France in 1965. Today, qualified reviewers evaluate more than 10,000 restaurants and hotels every year across thirteen countries.
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Scuba Diving in Raja Ampat will show you at least 1500 species of fish, 537 species of coral and 699 invertebrates that you can find in the underwater world of Raja Ampat. With a total area of water and land in Raja Ampat is 40,000 km2, 80% is water. Many of Raja Ampat diving places that can be visited. Underwater paradise of Raja Ampat is recognized internationally as one of the 10 best dive sites in the world and I call it the Pandora.
Raja Ampat is the world's coral triangle center (shaft which includes coral-rich waters in Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and Australia). This makes the sea in this area will become so huge variety of marine life.
Every day at 14:00 pm there will be a fast boat Marina Express and ferries serve passengers for the purpose of Sorong to Waisai. Waisai is the capital of Raja Ampat. This trip will take about 2.5 hours. If you depart from Jakarta, the flight Jakarta – Sorong will be served by the airline Express Air, Batavia Air and Lion Air. Air travel will take about 5.5 hours. If you turned out from Jakarta ( the capital city of Indonesia ) you can choose trip the by ship, then provided PT Pelni passenger ships sailing for 3 days premises route Jakarta – Sorong.
Diving and snorkeling activities in Raja Ampat has become the focus of world dive adventure. This is not surprising because travel stakeholders in Indonesia being intensively built a reputation of tourism in Indonesia. Especially in Raja Ampat. Currently, there are a number of Raja Ampat diving packages that you can choose. Travel bureaus generally been packed packages using the Raja Ampat diving liveaboard. Places of Raja Ampat diving and diving are very dependent on the flow conditions and water clarity at the time the package trips taken.
In Raja Ampat, you can rent a boat length at a cost of about US $500 for 10 days, it's included with the fuel. If you want to pass on the way up north to Raja Ampat, namely to around Wayag "Pandora of the Avatar movie", then you need to prepare as much as 1,200 liters of fuel. Keep in mind that the distance of the trip is 250 km. To get a long boat, you can visit the small dock. Arriving at the dock, the first thing you should do is look for information about the people who trusted and knows a great snorkeling spot.
Raja Ampat diving activity has been well prepared by the resorts in Raja Ampat. You should stay at the resort diving which indeed has provided a variety of equipment, facilities, and guide to the best dives to you. Read also the article to review the place Wayag diving in Raja Ampat.
If you went to Raja Ampat and had the choice to stay at one Raja Ampat resort, then do not hesitate to ask the staff or the resort concierge pick you up at the Port Waigeo. There are a number of resort diving in Raja Ampat. Eg Raja Ampat Dive resort, this resort is located in Waisai island. Others, such Misool Eco Resort. Resort is a resort dive and doubles as well as a conservation center located in southern Raja Ampat. Rooms at the resort is located in the middle of uninhabited islands rich variety of marine life.
If you are looking for cheap accommodation in Raja Ampat, then you should go to the district headquarters Raja Ampat, Waigeo. In this Waigeo there Achropora, which is a government-owned cottage area. There are also several inns and homestays in houses.
In Raja Ampat, actually quite simply by wearing snorkel course you can see up close a large stingray or collectively, the manta-ray. The manta ray has a body with a width of more than 2 m. Raja Ampat underwater world also inhabited by a whale's and you can also find dolphins pack dancing around.
Raja Ampat snorkeling spot full of manta rays known as manta reef. This place is so famous for badass underwater maniac. This place also has a fairly strong current, but there are lots of manta rays that you can see in the underwater there. From the location of the reef manta snorkeling activities can continue to watch the house reef located on the island of Kri.


Why hasn't Steven Spielberg directed a female lead for 30 years?
On Monday, Warner Bros. won the rights to photojournalist Lynsey Addario's memoir, It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War. The studio's pulling out the big guns on this one: Steven Spielberg is slated to direct Jennifer Lawrence in the lead role.
There's no reason to think this won't be a great movie with great performances that will also make a startling amount of money. Spielberg is responsible for one of the best big-screen depictions of military conflict we've ever seen, Addario's life story couldn't be more compelling, and Lawrence would probably turn in a Oscar-worthy (or, at the very least, Golden Globes-worthy) performance if cast as a cardboard box.
It's also worth noting that, while the real-life Addario is 41, Lawrence is only 24. While I don't doubt that J. Law will shine in the role, it seems like this was a missed opportunity to showcase a more age-appropriate talent. Actresses over 40 have a very hard time getting cast as anything but witches, a problem that is plainly apparent to anyone who isn't Russell Crowe.
Spielberg makes big, charming, iconic, and often unapologetically socially engaged movies, the broad appeal of which extends from your grandmother's worn VHS copy of Schindler's List to your little cousin who can't read yet but likes the part in E.T. with the Reese's Pieces. If he can make a concerted, consistent effort to cast the spotlight on deserving women, maybe mainstream Hollywood will take the hint.


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Hindustan Automation has been seeded by Hindustan Automation and Controls where a group of engineers are working with a mission to provide high tech automation system and are striving to deliver high quality product and utmost customer satisfaction within the frame of efficient economics. The Company itself was established in 2009 and within less than a decade, it has made its own niche in the field of Industrial Automation. It is the expertise and experience along with the wish to serve to the best paved the path to establish an institution of excellence in the field automation in name of Hindustan Automation in the earliest of the year 2011.
Hindustan Automation is the house of industrial automation training. The Institute is founded with a view that 'Teaching and Learning with Technologies' always serve as a backbone for the engineers in building their career in this competitive world, to fulfill its corporate motto "For Machine, the work of the Machine; For Human Beings, the thrill of Future Creations". Under the lights of this vision, special emphasis is taken for practical oriented and professional training modules in diversified hardware and software that are used in industrial automation and its assurance to fill the vacuum between practical knowledge and Industrial demands. Further the programmes are designed to cater the need of college students as well as of engineers working in industries.


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Vin Diesel Debuts 'Fast & Furious: Spy Racers' Animated Series That Honors Franchise's "Core Themes"
5:10 PM PST 12/9/2019 by Falen Hardge
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From left: Camille Ramsey, Manish Dayal, Tyler Posey, Charlet Chung, Vin Diesel, Similce Diesel, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Jorge Diaz and Luke Youngblood.
The high-octane street car franchise can now be viewed by kids as Dreamworks teams with Universal to bring the saga to the world of animation on Netflix.
Kids can now join the "fast" party as the high-energy race car craze Fast & Furious debuted its animation series Fast & Furious: Spy Racers on Dec. 7 at Universal Studios in Los Angeles. With a blue carpet rolled out, fans lined the plaza to steal a glimpse of their turbo-charged idol, Vin Diesel, who executive produced the Netflix original series along with Neal H. Moritz, Chris Morgan, Tim Hedrick and Bret Haaland.
Based on Universal's multibillion-dollar franchise, Fast & Furious: Spy Racers follows a diverse teenage pack of friends led by Tony Toretto, who ushers his team on the adventure of a lifetime as they are recruited by a secret government agency to infiltrate a notorious racing gang. The cast includes a herd of Hollywood newcomers — Tyler Posey, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Camille Ramsey, Luke Youngblood, Charlet Chung and Jorge Diaz. Diesel's daughter, Similce, also made her acting debut in the series. Diesel shared a "proud dad moment" with the audience as he gleamed with joy for her as a part of the cast. While introducing her he asked if she wanted to say something and with a smile, she eagerly snatched the mic, saying, "I am so excited, so let's just watch these two episodes."
Before the theater went dark, Diesel shared with the audience how the project was initiated. "When presented with the idea to do an animated series, I was like 'Huh?' Quickly I realized what a brilliant way to celebrate the core themes of the Fast & Furious saga and to do so [for] the youngest of our families because at the end of the day Fast & Furious is synonymous with family." Diesel reflected on his relationship with Universal while the crowd went wild with applause as he said they are "pioneers who said it didn't matter where you were from, what nationality you were."
As Dream Works Animation marks its 25th year bringing the beloved fascination to screens, the genre continues to be a strong entity in theaters and homes. Spy Racers takes the kid viewer on an explosive ride that mirrors the adult franchise while maintaining the integrity minus the hardcore violence, nudity, sex, foul language and bloody fight scenes. Hedrick told The Hollywood Reporter, "This is a chance for kids to experience Fast & Furious in a safe way because they're not necessarily going to go to the movie if they're R-rated, but this is a lot like it. Only it's safe. Haaland added "It's a new look at the franchise specifically for families to watch together. The Fast franchise is all about family. It's got all the action and comedy; great characters, and I think people are going to love it."
What shocked attendees the most is that Diesel had a surprise cameo in the screening which, until now, has not been previously revealed. Spy Racers is not only a heart-racing ride of comedy full of revved engines and burned rubber, but it provides elements that resonate with young audiences. "When I see young girls, I want them to be able to approach the object of cars and to be interested in cars in a way that's not intimidating. For characters like Layla Gray and Echo to be a representation of women who are unapologetic about their love of cars and racing [and] high-speed chases. All the high octane in the movies is all there still, but it's also appropriate for children and that's a great entry point when it comes to animation," Chung told THR.
Universal's chairwoman Donna Langley was seen at the afterparty which was hosted feet away in a family friendly setting at Antojitos at Universal CityWalk. At the party, guests feasted on tacos and sliders with all the fixings while there was a station set up to get themed T-shirts made on the spot.
"I thought it was really cool. I loved how it was able to bring the Fast & Furious franchise into a way younger kids can appreciate it. I'm not able to watch [the original series], but I can get the same experience without all the bad stuff," 14-year-old actor Pierce Gagnon said.
Spy Racers debuts Dec. 26 on Netflix while the ninth chapter of the Fast & Furious saga hits theaters May 22, 2020.
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The Bank of England is enslaved by green groupthink
Thu 11:44 am +00:00, 13 Jul 2017
What happens to its projections when the taxpayers of the world tire of being milked to subsidise renewables?
Wind turbines and farmland (image: istock)
by James Delingpole
I do find it odd that I'm so often having to write about the science of global warming, species extinction and ocean acidification because, though I've certainly acquired a pretty useful base knowledge over the years — superior, I'm guessing, to 97 per cent of scientists — it's really not my main interest. What fascinates me far more is the way the faddish preoccupations of a few green cultists have somehow come to dominate our entire culture, corrupting the intellectual current, suborning institutions, crushing dissent — much as Marxist, fascist and Nazi ideologies did in the 20th century, only with rather more widespread success.
Let me give you a recent example of this: an article from the June Quarterly Bulletin of the Bank of England, titled 'The Bank's response to climate change'. Nothing wrong with the premise: it is indeed part of the Bank's statutory duty to 'identify, monitor and take action to remove or reduce risks that threaten the resilience of the UK financial system'. The problem, argues energy editor John Constable in a critique for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, is the inexcusably one-sided way in which the bank has handled it. The report's focus is directed almost entirely towards the risks posed by fossil fuels. So we learn lots about the droughts, floods and storms that may be caused by 'man-made climate change'. And also — a popular campaign theme with the Guardian and Greenpeace, this one — that the world's remaining fossil fuel reserves (coal, oil, gas, etc) may have to be left in the ground as 'stranded assets', unusable because of the damage that burning them will supposedly do to the planet.
But we don't hear about the more plausible and immediate economic risks posed by renewables. The most obvious one is what will happen if taxpayers around the world tire of being milked to subsidise bird-frazzling solar arrays, bat-chomping eco-crucifixes, river-polluting anaerobic digesters, electric cars whose batteries alone create more CO2 during manufacture than a petrol car does in eight years, and suchlike, and the Potemkin industry that is renewables comes crashing to a sudden halt? It's not as if clever people haven't considered this possibility. Warren Buffett once frankly admitted that the only reason for building wind farms was for the 'tax credits' And though it's true that most western economies from the EU to Australia and Canada are now run by administrations broadly in favour of such green crony capitalism, the gravy train may not trundle on for ever. Look at what is now happening in the US under their new president.
I really don't expect people who write reports for the Quarterly Bulletin of the Bank of England to share my politics. What I do expect is that people in such important positions should do their actual job. If this report was on, say, the insights of Stormzy, the comparative merits of Stilton and Roquefort, or whether the jam or the clotted cream should go first on a scone, it would, of course, be deeply annoying if they got it wrong. But it would not, I submit, be as socially, economically and politically damaging as one which will influence central bank policy in the world's fifth largest economy.
Consider the repercussions when the Bank of England fails, as here, to do its due diligence: pension funds misallocate their investments; governments and green campaigners alike weave 'experts at the Bank of England' into their propaganda and policy justifications; public debate is distracted from serious issues by chimeras; businesses either misdirect their investments or simply give up the fight and jump on the band-wagon; financial journalists who should know better become unthinking mouthpieces for the climate industrial complex; City departments, from human resources to compliance and marketing, devise new ways to entrench environmental correctness into their philosophy; law firms wonder if there's any money to be made suing firms that haven't factored in the relevant risks.
When the Bank of England sneezes, in other words, the whole world catches a cold. (In the private sector there are heavy penalties for producing such false prospectuses. You wonder why similar rules don't apply to our public institutions.) And the only reason we don't get more angry about it is that most of the time we don't know it's going on.
I'm racking my brain to think which newspaper in these dumbed-down, brainwashed times would take a piece critiquing a Bank of England report on climate change resilience. None, obviously, because it's too esoteric and anyway, the media doesn't like to rock the boat — either because it subscribes to the official narrative or because it's sick of fending off vexatious Ipso complaints from green ideologues and climate industry stooges. So the result is that false information on climate change — it would be branded 'fake news' if it came from the right — is freely disseminated, is largely unchallenged, and becomes widely accepted fact.
Think of this, next time you chat about climate change to someone who must know what they're talking about because they're a high powered financier/a City lawyer/a senior oil industry executive/an actual scientist/a university professor. Likely their opinions will not be borne of personal investigation, but rather will come from simply having taken on trust an official narrative which it would be more than their job's worth to challenge even if they felt the urge.
This is the nature of groupthink and there's hardly an institution in the western world which isn't a prisoner of it. Such a pity that those few of us holding the keys to the cell doors are treated like pariahs.
Source: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/07/the-bank-of-england-is-enslaved-by-green-groupthink/
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Il titolo cardinalizio di San Ciriaco alle Terme Diocleziane era già presente al sinodo romano del 1º marzo 499. Secondo il catalogo di Pietro Mallio, composto sotto il pontificato di papa Alessandro III, esso era legato alla Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, ed i suoi preti vi celebravano messa a turno. Nel XII secolo era conosciuto come San Ciriaco in thermis e, sotto il pontificato di papa Giovanni XXII, come San Ciriaco in Verminis. Divenuta inagibile la chiesa di San Ciriaco alle Terme, il titolo fu soppresso da papa Sisto V, che lo sostituì con quello dei Santi Quirico e Giulitta. È da notare che Quirico e Ciriaco sono sinonimi.

Titolari
 Martino e Epifanio (menzionati nel 499)
 Aventino (menzionato nel 595)
 Costantino (menzionato nel 721)
 Procopio (prima del 743 - dopo il 745)
 Sassolo (menzionato nel 761)
 Leone (menzionato nell'853)
 Maio (menzionato nell'869)
 Marino (? - 30 ottobre 942 eletto papa con il nome di Marino II)
 Giovanni (menzionato nel 1068 o 1069)
 Crisostomo (1099 - circa 1105)
 Domnizzone (o Domnizo) (1105 - prima del 1117)
 Crisogono (circa 1117 - circa 1122)
 Oderisio, O.S.B. (1122 - 1126)
 Rustico (dicembre 1128- prima del 1142 deceduto)
 Niccolò (17 dicembre 1143 - 1º aprile 1151 ? deceduto)
 Giovanni Domenico Trinci (1213 ? - 1219 ? deceduto)
 Riccardo di Montecassino, O.S.B. Cas. (agosto 1255 ? - 1º marzo 1263 deceduto)
 Etienne de Suisy (15 dicembre 1305 - 10 dicembre 1311 deceduto)
 Guillaume Teste (23 dicembre 1312 - settembre 1326 deceduto)
 Bernardo d'Albi (18 dicembre 1338 - 19 gennaio 1349 nominato cardinale vescovo di Porto e Santa Rufina)
 Niccolò Caracciolo Moschino, O.P. (18 dicembre 1378 - 29 luglio 1389 deceduto)
 Giovanni Piacentini (20 luglio 1387 - 9 maggio 1404 deceduto), pseudocardinale dell'antipapa Clemente VII
 Cristoforo Maroni (18 dicembre 1389 - 4 dicembre 1404 deceduto)
 Matteo da Cracovia (o Ciaconiani) (19 settembre 1408 - 5 marzo 1410 deceduto)
 Jan Železný, O. Praem. (27 maggio 1426 - 9 ottobre 1430 deceduto)
 Dénes Szécsi (8 gennaio 1440 - 1º febbraio 1465 deceduto)
 Thomas Bourchier (15 marzo 1468 - 30 marzo 1486 deceduto)
 Bernardino Lonati; diaconia pro hac vice (23 settembre 1493 - 8 agosto 1497 deceduto)
 Pietro Isvalies (o Isuales, o Isuali, o Isuagles, o Suaglio) (5 ottobre 1500 - 18 agosto 1507); in commendam (18 agosto 1507 - 22 settembre 1511 deceduto)
 Scaramuccia Trivulzio (6 luglio 1517 - 3 agosto 1527 deceduto)
 Agostino Spinola (3 agosto 1527 - 5 settembre 1534 nominato cardinale presbitero di Sant'Apollinare)
 Francesco Corner (5 settembre 1534 - 31 maggio 1535 nominato cardinale presbitero di Santa Prassede)
 Giacomo Simonetta (31 maggio 1535 - 28 novembre 1537 nominato cardinale presbitero di Sant'Apollinare)
 Girolamo Aleandro (13 marzo 1538 - 20 marzo 1538 nominato cardinale presbitero di San Crisogono)
 Pietro Bembo, O.S.Io.Hier.; diaconia pro hac vice (10 novembre 1539 - 15 febbraio 1542 nominato cardinale presbitero di San Crisogono)
 Pomponio Ceci (12 giugno 1542 - 4 agosto 1542 deceduto)
 Gregorio Cortese, O.S.B. Cas. (12 giugno 1542 - 21 settembre 1548 deceduto)
 Bernardino Maffei (10 maggio 1549 - 16 luglio 1553 deceduto)
 Giovanni Andrea Mercurio (18 agosto 1553 - 19 gennaio 1560 nominato cardinale presbitero di San Marcello)
 Ludovico Simonetta (10 marzo 1561 - 15 novembre 1566 nominato cardinale presbitero di Sant'Anastasia)
 Giovanni Francesco Commendone; diaconia pro illa vice (15 novembre 1566 - 1573 ?); (1573 ? - 5 luglio 1574 nominato cardinale presbitero di Santa Maria degli Angeli nominato cardinale presbitero di Sant'Anastasia)
 Pedro de Deza Manuel (22 giugno 1580 - 9 gennaio 1584 nominato cardinale presbitero di Santa Prisca)
 Titolo soppresso nel 1587

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Voci correlate
Chiesa di San Ciriaco alle Terme di Diocleziano

Ciriaco alle Terme Diocleziane

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SHECP's Connie Snyder Mick Named Editor of 'Poverty and Public Policy'
Connie Snyder Mick, director of academic affairs at the University of Notre Dame's Center for Social Concerns, has been appointed editor-in-chief of Poverty and Public Policy (PPP), an academic journal focused on research related to poverty, welfare,
JP Shortall, University of Notre Dame	February 19, 2019
New Book Offers Ethics-Focused Approach for First-Year Writing Courses
Oxford University Press has just published a new book, Good Writing: An Argument Rhetoric, by SHECP governing board member Connie Snyder Mick, academic director of the Center for Social Concerns and co-director of the Poverty Studies
JP Shortall, Center for Social Concerns, University of Notre Dame	November 7, 2018
Beckley addresses "Judgment Mediating Grace"
Lexington, Virginia (May 23, 2018) – Harlan Beckley, SHECP Founding Director, delivered remarks at the Baccalaureate Ceremony at Washington and Lee University. The text of his remarks are here: Judgment Mediating Grace President Dudley,
SHECP	May 29, 2018
Rebecca Todd "Toddie" Peters, Governing Board Chair, Publishes Third Book
SHECP congratulates Rebecca Todd "Toddie" Peters, 2017-2018 Chair of the SHECP Governing Board, on the recent publication of her third book. In "Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice" (Beacon Press, 2018), Peters
SHECP	April 26, 2018
SHECP Appoints Brett Morash Executive Director
Lexington, VA — Brett Morash will assume the position of Executive Director on January 15, 2018. Morash, a retired naval officer, comes to SHECP from a position as Director of Operations and Finance at the
SHECP	January 8, 2018
Mick publishes chapter on teaching poverty and mental health through service-learning
SHECP Governing Board Member, Connie Snyder Mick, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, has co-authored, "Service-Learning in Higher Education: Teaching about Poverty and Mental Health." Her co-author is James M. Frabutt, and the chapter appears in
SHECP	November 28, 2017
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Introducing the new way to weigh. Skåler allows you to scoop, measure and mix with one tool.
Skåler is a scoop that allows the user to scoop, measure and mix with one tool. The user just has to slide the stainless steel weight up the handle to the desired weight. Alongside grams, the scoop also has a measuring guide in millimetres and US cups. The lowest marker defines the place where the spoon is to be placed. This allows the exact measuring of the weight in the spoon. Skåler is suitable for hot and cold dishes and is dishwasher safe.
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Menopause The Musical 2 Cruising Through Menopause
Menopause the Musical 2: Cruising Through Menopause
The Customs House - Arts Centre in South Shields
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Email: mail@customshouse.co.uk
In our brand-new show, **Cruising Through Menopause**, the hysterical sequel to the smash-hit show **Menopause The Musical®,** we fast forward five years to catch up with the same four ladies as they set off on the high seas for tales of their lives, loves and losses.
Hot flushes, night sweats, mood swings, memory lapses, weight gain - these are a few of our favourite menopausal things! **Cruising Through Menopause** is a hilarious, heartfelt, reassuring and unflinching look at the joys of menopause and friendship. When your life is a bumpy ride full of twists and turns, it's hard to find true friends. But step on board and we'll take you on a trip of self-discovery, love and friendship all backed by a soundtrack of toe-tapping parodied hits!
For these four ladies the menopause was not the beginning of the end, but the beginning of a beautiful friendship where love conquers, and friendships never fail.
So, all aboard and we'll have you laughing, singing and maybe even dancing on-stage, as you join us for **Menopause The Musical® 2 - Cruising Through Menopause**.
Star cast to be announced.
The show is sponsored by **iMEDicare**.
Age advisory 16+
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PayPal Zettle POS Review: Formerly PayPal Here
PayPal Zettle is a complete POS system that can take payments and help you manage inventory and track sales.
PayPal Zettle is a complete point-of-sale, or POS, system that allows you to take payments, manage inventory, track sales and receive reports. It replaces PayPal Here, the company's previous POS product. While just launched in the U.S. earlier this year, a version of Zettle has been available in parts of Europe since 2011.
Zettle delivers essential POS features at a low cost with a small commitment. Although the system can be expanded through hardware, it doesn't currently offer plan upgrades or add-on features, such as the customer loyalty and email marketing programs available with Square POS.
Note: While PayPal Here is no longer offered, existing customers can continue to use the product.
Solid core features.
No monthly fees.
No long-term commitment.
Low initial costs.
No add-on features available.
Limited integrations.
Funds are transferred to your PayPal account and not your bank account.
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Deciding factors
Software cost
No monthly fees for the POS app.
First reader is discounted to $29 and additional readers cost $79. Price includes USB cable. Compact store kit starts at $249 and increases to $578 with addition of an iPad.
Payment processing cost
Cost of 2.29% plus 9 cents per card-present transaction and 3.49% plus 9 cents per manual entry card transaction.
No long-term contracts.
Customer support is provided by phone or messaging after logging in to your account. Phone support is offered from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. CT every day. Email support is offered 24/7. A resolution center and a community forum are also available.
It's easy to use and navigate. Getting started is straightforward and can be done by downloading the app and registering for an account.
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How does PayPal Zettle work?
The PayPal Zettle POS app is free and can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play. It requires an Apple iOS of 12.1 or later or Android OS of 8 or later; you'll also need to be on a 3G, 4G or 5G cellular network, or on Wi-Fi.
After downloading the Zettle app to your device, you can create an account and order a card reader. The card reader lets you accept credit and debit card transactions and contactless payments.
Your mobile device acts as a POS system to take payments, track sales, generate reports, manage inventory and monitor staff productivity. You'll also have the option to collect customer email addresses and integrate with accounting and e-commerce apps.
PayPal Zettle POS functions
Zettle has the typical core features you would expect in a POS system.
Payment features
Zettle accepts payments by credit and debit cards, digital wallets and QR codes. This includes Mastercard, Visa, American Express, Discover, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, PayPal, Venmo and others. In addition to in-person transactions, you can accept payments over the phone, create invoices and send payment links to customers.
You'll pay a flat rate of 2.29% plus 9 cents per card-present transaction and 3.49% plus 9 cents per manual entry card transaction. Funds are typically transferred to your PayPal account within one business day, and you have the option to set up deposits to your bank account.
Card reader and hardware
Your first reader is discounted to $29. Each additional reader costs $79. The Zettle card reader connects by Bluetooth, and it works with iOS and Android devices. It has eight hours of battery life and charges with a USB cable.
You can purchase additional hardware, including a reader docking station, iPad stand, cash drawer and bar code scanner. A Zettle docking station is $49 and allows you to charge your reader while docked. A number of ready-made kits are also available starting at $249.
Sales tracking and reports
The app allows you to track sales and receive automatic reports. In the reports section of the app, you'll find an overview of the prior day's sales numbers. More detailed reporting is available in your Zettle account, including a summary of sales, a breakdown of payment types and fees, top-selling products, gift cards sold and staff performance. These reports can be exported to PDF, Excel or a raw data format.
The app allows you to build a product library. You can import a product list from a spreadsheet, group the products by category, and then add photos, descriptions and bar codes. New products can be added, too. Inventory can be managed from the app or your online account, and you'll be notified when it's time to restock products.
Zettle POS integrates with the accounting app QuickBooks Online and with the e-commerce apps Shopify, BigCommerce and WooCommerce. After setting up the connection, data can be automatically imported into QuickBooks Online every night. Your products from e-commerce websites can be imported to your Zettle product library and inventory changes synced between platforms.
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Benefits of PayPal Zettle
Solid basic features
If you want the core functionality of a POS system, you'll find it with Zettle. It has a robust payment system that can handle card, digital wallet and QR code transactions, plus allow you to manually enter payments. You can add discounts, enter refunds and issue receipts. Features to help you manage your inventory, monitor top-selling products, and track the productivity of your staff are also included.
Getting started with Zettle is quick, easy and inexpensive. The software is free and the first card reader is priced at $29. Because there isn't a long-term commitment, you can try the system out at minimal cost. The flat rate fees for payment processing are reasonable; they're similar to those of Square POS.
Drawbacks of PayPal Zettle
No add-on features
While Zettle provides the core features you expect in a POS system, it limits you to a single plan. Zettle competitors offer multiple plans or give you the opportunity to purchase add-on features like customer loyalty programs, email marketing or advanced reports. You can expand your Zettle system through the purchase of more hardware, but not by purchasing additional features.
Limited integrations
Zettle offers a limited number of app integrations. Some competitors offer integrations for a larger number and variety of apps, including those for accounting, e-commerce, customer engagement, scheduling and employee management.
Alternatives to PayPal Zettle
Square POS can be used by businesses of all types including retail, food and beverage, and service professionals. Payment processing, sales reports and inventory management are included. Add-ons such as team management, loyalty programs and email marketing are also available. There's no monthly fee, and the first card reader is free. You can purchase a POS register for $799, with an option to pay $39 a month for 24 months. Payment processing fees: Square charges 2.6% plus 10 cents per in-person transaction and 3.5% plus 15 cents per manually keyed transaction.
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Welcome to the Town of Barnet
Barnet is a small town in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom situated along the Connecticut River. Its five villages are Barnet Village, East Barnet, West Barnet, McIndoe Falls, and Passumpsic.
Town news & announcements:
Annual Town Meeting – Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. at Barnet School (163 Kid Row). Click the links below for copies of the warning and notice.
Warning – 2023 Town Meeting
Notice – 2023 Town Meeting
Town Hall Repurposing
The Selectboard is exploring and investigating the proposed repurposing of the Town Hall as a municipal office building. Visit the Town Hall Project page for information.
Village Center Designation for Four Barnet Villages
The Vermont Downtown Development Board has designated Passumpsic, Barnet Village, McIndoe Falls, and West Barnet Village as state-recognized village centers. This designation makes properties in these centers eligible for state benefits, including financial incentives, training, and technical assistance needed to attract new business and vitality. To learn more, please visit the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development website
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Report on Fuego (Guatemala) — 19 August-25 August 2009
Smithsonian / US Geological Survey Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 19 August-25 August 2009
Global Volcanism Program, 2009. Report on Fuego (Guatemala). In: Sennert, S K (ed.), Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 19 August-25 August 2009. Smithsonian Institution and US Geological Survey.
Volcano Profile | Weekly Report (19 August-25 August 2009)
14.473°N, 90.88°W; summit elev. 3763 m
Based on information from the Tegucigalpa MWO, the Washington VAAC reported that ash was detected within 15 km of Fuego on 19 August. Ash was not identified in satellite imagery. On 21 and 25 August, INSIVUMEH reported that explosions produced plumes that rose to altitudes of 4.2-4.6 km (13,800-15,100 ft) a.s.l. and drifted 5-7 km W and SW. On 21 August rumbling sounds were accompanied by incandescent tephra ejected 75 m high. On 25 August, ashfall was reported in areas to the SW.
Geologic Background. Volcán Fuego, one of Central America's most active volcanoes, is also one of three large stratovolcanoes overlooking Guatemala's former capital, Antigua. The scarp of an older edifice, Meseta, lies between Fuego and Acatenango to the north. Construction of Meseta dates back to about 230,000 years and continued until the late Pleistocene or early Holocene. Collapse of Meseta may have produced the massive Escuintla debris-avalanche deposit, which extends about 50 km onto the Pacific coastal plain. Growth of the modern Fuego volcano followed, continuing the southward migration of volcanism that began at the mostly andesitic Acatenango. Eruptions at Fuego have become more mafic with time, and most historical activity has produced basaltic rocks. Frequent vigorous historical eruptions have been recorded since the onset of the Spanish era in 1524, and have produced major ashfalls, along with occasional pyroclastic flows and lava flows.
Sources: Instituto Nacional de Sismologia, Vulcanologia, Meteorologia, e Hidrologia (INSIVUMEH), Washington Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC)


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El comtat de Duras fou una jurisdicció feudal del Sacre Imperi Romanogermànic desenvolupada al segle XI en el que havia estat el gran territori d'Haspengouw, fraccionat en jurisdiccions menors.

Del primer comte no se sap el nom, només que estava casat amb Herlendis, que la Gesta Abbatem Trudonensium diu que fou la comtessa mare de Godofreu, comte de Duras (Duratii) i que va fer una donació a l'abadia de Sint-Truiden el 1021 per l'ànima del seu fill primogènit Adalberó, monjo a l'església de Metz. Com que és improbable que el fill primogènit fos destinat al sacerdoci, se suposa que podria ser fill d'un anterior matrimoni. Herlendis va morir en una data desconeguda posterior al 2 de novembre de 1024 quan és esmentada per darrer cop. El fill que hauria succeït al comte sense nom fou Godofreu que és esmentat a la donació del 1021 i a la 1024; en aquesta segona el seu germà Giselbert és esmentat com a procurador del monestir de Sint-Truiden. Després Giselbert fou comte de Duras en succeir al seu germà i fou el pare d'Oda de Duras, casada amb Otó de Loon (fill de Giselbert de Loon + 1044/1046), que va governar el comtat per dret uxori.

Otó era germà del comte Emmon de Loon. La Vita Arnulfi els considera fills d'Otó de Loon i la seva esposa Luitgarda de Namur (filla d'Albert I, comte de Namur i d'Ermengarda de Baixa Lotaríngia) però per raons cronològiques això no és possible i per altres fonts es dedueix que eren nets. La Gesta Abbatem Trudonensium diu que el 1060 fou procurador de Sint-Truiden. Hauria estat comte de Duras vers 1046 a 1101. Com s'ha dit es va casar amb Oda de Duras, la filla de Giselbert de Duras, de la que va derivar el seu dret, i va tenir dos fills, Giselbert II que el va succeir, i Bovó.

Giselbert II apareix esmentat en una donació imperial a l'esglesía de Sant Jaume a Lieja per carta de 23 d'abril de 1088, feta a petició dels comtes Enric de Durbuy i Giselbert fill del comte Otó de Loos; La Gesta Abbatem Trudonensium l'esmenta ja com a comte ("Durachiensis comes Gyslebertus") després del 1101. El 1136 els monjos de Flône van obtenir de Lambert, comte de Clermont, el dret de recollir la fusta dels boscos del seu comtat, sent testimonis els comte Giselbert de Duras, Arnulf (segurament seria Arnold II de Loos) i Walter procurador de Barz. Es va casar amb Gertrudis o Gertrud (+1114) i en segones noces amb Oda de Chiny, filla d'Otó II de Chiny. Va morir vers 1138 i va deixar set fills entre els quals el successor Otó II.

D'aquestos set fills, Conó fou senyor d'Otreppes i de Diepenbeek i canonge a Sant Lambert de Lieja (1135-1155), Gerard (+1174) abat de Saint-Trond el 1145 (va renunciar el 1155), Teodoric, prebost a Huy (1130-1153), canonge de Sant Lambert de Lieja (1141-1158) i arxidiaca (1167-1183), i Brunó, canonge a Sant Lambert de Lieja 1149-1177; els altres foren Gislebert, una filla de nom desconegut i el comte Otó II. Aquest darrer apareix en una donació el 1147; es va casar amb Berta de Ribermont filla de Godofreu II de Ribemont, castellà de Valenciennes i senyor de Bouchain (Berta es va casar després amb Guiu de Saint-Aubert). Otó va tenir una filla anomenada Juliana casada amb Godofreu comte de Montaigu i de Clermont (fill de Lambert comte de Montaigu i de Clermont) i en segones noces amb Enguerrand d'Orbais. Llavors va passar a la casa de Montaigu però el darrer comte, Conó, que no tenia successió, el va cedir per un acord a Gerard II comte de Loon

Per la seva situació tenia un paper destacat en les guerres entre el comte de Loon i el duc de Brabant. Hug de Pierrepont, príncep bisbe de Lieja va esdevenir el senyor feudal del comtat de Duras el 1203 de manera que en cas d'extinció de la casa de Loon les seves possessions passaven al bisbat cosa que va passar el 1336. Poc abans, el 1328 el comtat va passar mediatitzat a mans del casal de Neuchâtel i el 1427 a mans de la família d'Oyenbrugge (senyors de Coolhem); i finalment el 1705 a la família Van der Noot. Modernament (segle XX) el castell va pertànyer a les famílies d'Oultremont i de Liedekerke.

Llista de comtes
 Nom desconegut, casat amb Herlendis vers 1000-1020
 Godofreu I 1020-?
 Giselbert I vers 1045
 Oda de Duras vers 1045
 Otó I (Otó de Loon) 1046-1101
 Giselbert II 1101-1138
 Otó II 1138-1147
 Juliana 1147-1164
 Godofreu II (comte de Condroz/clermont i de Montaigu) 1147-1161 (marit)
 Enguerrand d'Orbais 1161-1164 (segon marit de Juliana)
 Gil 1164-1175, comte de Clermont/Condroz i de Montaigu
 Pere 1175-1185, comte de Montaigu
 Conó (III) 1185-1189, comte de Montaigu i de Clermont/Condroz
 Gerard comte de Loon vers 1189.
 A Loon 1189-1336
 Sobirania feudal de Lieja 1203-1336
 A Lieja 1336

Referències
 Genealogia

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Best Vacation Spots For Fantasy Loving Families
By Christa Thompson // October 24, 2018
From Harry Potter to Star Wars to superheroes, fantasy culture has never been so widespread or popular. For families who love all things fantasy, that means it's never been easier to plan the ultimate in family vacations. From Star Trek to Game of Thrones, there are some destinations you should consider that will not only keep the children fascinated but might also inspire them too. Fantasy culture is absolutely everywhere, and no matter how old your children might be, there's a fandom out there for them. If you're looking for the ultimate in fantasy vacation spots, then these three destinations are great starting points.
Home of the Hobbits
One doesn't simply walk to New Zealand, but there are plenty of easier ways to get there. It's a destination that's become much more popular in the last few years, and that's largely down to the Lord of the Rings films. With the fantasy series filmed almost entirely in New Zealand, fans can explore some of the most recognizable settings and take part in tours that cover some of the most stunning-looking scenes. New Zealand is a fantastic destination for a family trip, but for those who like their vacations to have a more fantasy element, it's hard to beat following the route of the Fellowship of the Ring.
The Ultimate Nerd Mashup Vacation
While it's great to focus a family vacation on a set number of interests, there is a way to encompass every potential nerd fandom that your family has an interest in. Comic conventions have never been bigger, and San Diego Comic Con is the biggest and most important fantasy event in the world. Every year, it is the site where thousands of fans gather to spot celebrities, watch exclusive trailers, buy every kind of merchandise imaginable, and soak up the ultimate in fantasy atmospheres. If you're looking for a vacation that has a bit of everything, then SDCC should be high on your list of potential destinations.
Magic and the British Accent
For family members of all ages, there's always been something a little special about Harry Potter. It's a firm favorite around the world, and that means that the UK has an entire industry built up around the film series. There are so many great locations to go and check out that it's worth looking for some all inclusive child friendly holidays. Head off each morning to visit the next spectacular location, from The Warner Bros Studio Tour to the castles and windswept landscapes where Hermione and her friends fought Voldemort. Potterheads will fall in love with the UK. Don't forget to visit King's Cross Station, where you might want to have a go at finding Platform 9 ¾.
But if you're in the states, you can certainly check out Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure for Diagon Alley and Hogwarts!
Family vacations don't have to mean being stuck on a beach or standing in line at a theme park all week. Embrace your collective family fandoms and center your vacation around them. Encouraging the creativity and love of art in your children is a good step to building their confidence, and you will have created memories that will last a lifetime.
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The Institute of Medicine's president criticizes "Deadly Immunity," and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. responds.
A commentary on vaccine safety issues written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that appeared in Salon and Rolling Stone is rife with factual errors and distortions. Although there are numerous errors in Kennedy's piece that deserve correction and clarification, this letter focuses only on the errors pertaining to the Institute of Medicine.
Commentators and publications should take great care to ensure that their stories dealing with health provide parents with verifiable facts and reliable scientific evidence. Providing any less can lead to unwarranted fears and anxiety.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health asked the Institute of Medicine in 2000 to provide an independent and objective review of a series of vaccine safety concerns. This review resulted in a total of eight reports (for a full list see the IOM's Immunization Safety Review Web site). The charge to the study committee is a matter of public record and was discussed in a public meeting on Jan. 10, 2001.
Sponsors of IOM studies provide funding and their perspectives on what committees convened to carry out the studies should be charged to do. For example, in the case of IOM's studies of vaccines and autism, the CDC discussed what would make the committee's conclusions and recommendations most useful and understandable to policymakers, such as outlining specific research needs rather than giving a general recommendation that more research is needed. However, no organizations -- neither the CDC, nor the NIH, nor medical associations, nor parent groups, nor any others -- have control over committee members' conclusions and recommendations. The only factor that influences IOM committees' conclusions and recommendations is the evidence.
This is borne out by the results of IOM's first look at the thimerosal question in 2001. For those who are not aware, IOM visited the thimerosal question twice in its series on vaccine safety. At that time, the committee concluded that although there was not solid evidence linking thimerosal to brain disorders including autism, neither was the evidence sufficient to rule out a link. This would hardly seem to be a conclusion that would be reached by a committee that was "instructed to produce a report debunking the link," as Mr. Kennedy erroneously wrote. In addition, the committee in that report supported a call by the American Academy of Pediatrics for thimerosal to be removed voluntarily from vaccines.
Mr. Kennedy sought to buttress his misrepresentation of the purpose of the IOM studies by selectively using and fabricating quotations from the transcript of an organizational meeting held by the committee. He took words and phrases out of context, combined them and misrepresented them as direct quotes. The discussions recorded in this transcript focus on the committee members' efforts to make sure that they fully understood their charge and had reached agreement on the best way to conduct their study. Part of the discussions focused on the concerns, interests and stakes held by various parties, including both the CDC and parents.
For example, Mr. Kennedy used this partial quote from Dr. Marie McCormick: The CDC "wants us to declare, well, these things are pretty safe." Here is the full quote from Dr. McCormick: "I took away [from the previous day's discussion] actually an issue that we may have to confront, and that is actually the definition of what we mean by safety. It is safety on a population basis, but it is also safety for the individual child. I am wondering, if we take this dual perspective, we may address more of the parent concerns, perhaps developing a better message if we think about what comes down the stream as opposed to CDC, which wants us to declare, well, these things are pretty safe on a population basis." The full quote is part of a discussion of the need of parents to know if a vaccine is safe for an individual child (or if the vaccine is a danger for an ill child) compared with the public health community's need to know if vaccines pose risks to a whole population. In fact, Dr. McCormick proposed that the committee consider addressing the parental concerns about the health of an individual child -- not just the CDC's concern about population-wide effects.
In its 2004 report, the committee concluded that the totality of the evidence available indicated that neither thimerosal nor the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine is associated with autism. Contrary to Mr. Kennedy's assertions, the report clearly recommends that research continue to seek the cause or causes of autism, but that finite resources should be directed toward the most promising paths, and a significant investment in studies of the theoretical vaccine-autism connection is not useful at this time. The exact text of the IOM report reads: "The committee urges that research on autism focus more broadly on the disorder's causes and treatments for it. Thus, the committee recommends a public health response that fully supports an array of vaccine safety activities. In addition the committee recommends that available funding for autism research be channeled to the most promising areas." In addition, the committee recommended that trends in autism incidence in the United States be closely tracked now that thimerosal has been largely eliminated from routine immunizations. The report offers nine specific recommendations for research on autism, thimerosal and vaccine safety in general.
To reach its conclusions about the possible links between thimerosal and the MMR vaccine and autism, the committee reviewed a large amount of literature on this topic -- more than 215 references are cited in the 2004 report. The committee members based their conclusions on the whole body of the evidence, including toxicology studies, not just four epidemiological studies. The committee included several experts in epidemiology, pediatrics, clinical medicine, statistics and other relevant fields who reviewed and discussed in detail the strengths and weaknesses of the epidemiological, clinical and biological evidence pertaining to thimerosal and autism. Their detailed analysis of these strengths and weaknesses is included in their report, which is a public document available to anyone who wishes to read it. Mr. Kennedy did not offer a detailed analysis of why he views four of the studies reviewed by the committee as flawed.
In addition, Mr. Kennedy erroneously conflates the work of two entirely separate IOM committees. The IOM entered into a contract with the CDC in 2004 to assess the Vaccine Safety Datalink data-sharing program. (The VSD is a large, linked database of patient information such as vaccination histories, health outcomes and other characteristics that can be used to study whether health problems are associated with vaccinations.) As an independent, nongovernmental organization, the IOM cannot be forced to take on any particular study, nor was there pressure from Congress, parents or others to conduct this study. The Committee on the Review of the National Immunization Program's Research Procedures and Data Sharing Program did not review the work of the IOM Immunization Safety Review Committee, which wrote the report on vaccines and autism. The committee that reviewed the data-sharing program released a report in February 2005 that was directed to the CDC and others involved with the VSD, not to the IOM's Immunization Safety Review Committee.
Mr. Kennedy's piece does not mention that the IOM's studies on vaccines and autism -- like all IOM studies -- were peer reviewed (the equivalent of fact checking in the scientific community) by a group of outside experts before being approved for publication. The IOM, a branch of the National Academies, also follows stringent policies for reviewing the potential conflicts of interest or biases of individuals who are chosen to serve on its study committees. The members selected for the committee that reviewed vaccine safety issues had no links to the CDC, vaccine manufacturers, vaccine-related litigation or advocacy groups, and they had received no recent funding from the sponsors of the study. They received no remuneration for their work on the committee. The reputation of the National Academies for objectivity, integrity, independence and competence has been earned through numerous studies, and it is one of our most important assets.
Our corrections are only a subset of the many factual misstatements and errors contained in Mr. Kennedy's commentary. In the interests of accuracy and fairness -- and to alleviate unsubstantiated anxiety that this piece may have raised among readers -- we call upon Salon and Rolling Stone to publish this full letter and to run a complete correction of the many other errors contained in Mr. Kennedy's commentary.
-- Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Fineberg charges that I fabricated quotations by the participants of the January 2001 IOM meeting, but offers no evidence of "fabricated" quotes. I took all the statements from transcripts created by the IOM. Dr. Fineberg complains that I took Dr. Marie McCormick's words at the January 2001 organizational meeting out of context. He suggests McCormick wasn't trying to influence the study results when she said "the CDC wants us to declare, well, these things are pretty safe." But the context he adds does not contradict the way I used her quote.
Furthermore, additional statements made by McCormick ("We are not ever going to come down that [autism] is a true side effect of [thimerosal exposure]") and other meeting participants, including IOM study director Kathleen Stratton ("The evidence [will be] inadequate to accept or reject a causal relation") and Dr. Michael Kaback ("How we work our way out of the trap, I think is the charge"), make it clear that the panel members felt they were under pressure to exonerate thimerosal.
Dr. Fineberg complains that I didn't cite a 2001 report by the IOM that found a biologically plausible link between thimerosal and neurological disorders including autism, recommended removal of thimerosal from vaccines and advised that the links between thimerosal and the wide range of neurological disorders should be further researched. Dr. Fineberg argues that "this would hardly seem to be a conclusion that would be reached by a committee that was instructed to produce a report debunking the link." I did cite the 2001 IOM report in an early draft of "Deadly Immunity"; it was moved to a sidebar. But in 2004, the IOM contracted with the CDC to study the link between thimerosal and autism, and to look at studies that had appeared subsequent to the 2001 report. It was that committee's findings I wrote about in "Deadly Immunity."
Instead of conducting further studies of the possible causal links between thimerosal and a range of neurological disorders including speech delay, attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, mental retardation and autism, as the 2001 IOM Immunization Safety Review Committee had recommended, the IOM narrowed its focus, at the request of the CDC, to study autism only. Although Dr. Fineberg says the committee cited 215 studies on links between thimerosal and autism, the report placed heavy emphasis on the four epidemiological studies I called flawed in "Deadly Immunity": studies of European countries where children had been exposed to only a fraction of the thimerosal concentrations administered to American children, and where they often undercounted the number of autistics.
The IOM's narrow focus on autism also allowed the committee to avoid the larger number of studies linking thimerosal to the wider spectrum of neurodevelopmental injuries. IOM chief staffer Kathleen Stratton effectively acknowledged that when she told me in an interview, "Clearly, mercury is very toxic. Clearly, ethyl mercury is neurotoxic. Clearly, ethyl mercury affects cell systems -- animals, human cells -- all those sorts of things, and clearly, when it was injected into newborn mice they had weird behavior. The point is, mercury is not good for you. Granted, thimerosal ... I mean it can't be good for you, right? And certainly, at some doses it's very bad for you. But the [only] question [we were charged with answering] is whether any of those animal or in vitro studies make a connection to autism."
I also question Dr. Fineberg's assurance that the IOM follows stringent policies for reviewing the potential conflict of interest of its panel members. Surely he is well aware of the many journalists and public officials who have raised questions about the web of ties among the CDC, the pharmaceutical industry and the research community. Fineberg's claims that the members selected for the Immunization Safety Review Committee had no links to the CDC and received no money from funding sponsors (the NIH and the CDC) are wrong. Committee member Dr. Rebecca Parkin is a former CDC epidemiologist. Dr. Gerald Medoff has a long history with NIH, having served on a Research Advisory Board for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which along with the CDC contracted the IOM report. Additionally, his former employer, Washington University, receives significant funding from vaccine manufacturers. Dr. Steve Goodman received more than a dozen grants from NIH since 1993. Dr. McCormick's Harvard School of Public Health receives NIH funding as well as funding from pharmaceutical companies, and Dr. Bennett Shaywitz has received more than 50 NIH grants since 1988.
On the question of further research, Dr. Fineberg's own letter makes clear that the 2004 committee report recommended that research be funneled "to the most promising areas," which was almost universally understood to mean areas unrelated to the thimerosal-autism link. In fact, committee chairwoman Marie McCormick was explicit in a press conference after the report was issued: "The overwhelming evidence from several well-designed studies indicates that childhood vaccines are not associated with autism. We strongly support ongoing research to discover the cause or causes of this devastating disorder. Resources would be used most effectively if they were directed toward those avenues of inquiry that offer the greatest promise for answers. Without supporting evidence, the vaccine hypothesis does not hold such promise."
On the question of conflating two panels, my article described the February 2005 findings as the work of a "new" panel, but wrongly stated that it had been established to review the earlier committee's work. Instead, the new panel was convened to address continuing concerns about the Vaccine Safety Datalink data-sharing program. Its February 2005 findings were critical of the way the VSD had been used to study vaccine safety, which was central to the work of the Immunization Safety Review Committee's 2004 findings on thimerosal.
Dr. Fineberg claims that the IOM came under no pressure from the CDC to debunk the autism-vaccine link, despite the concerns voiced at the January 2001 meeting. But the CDC has failed to fully release the details of the contract (Task Order No. 74) that laid out the CDC's specifications to the IOM for the thimerosal-autism study, despite Freedom of Information Act requests. I challenge Dr. Fineberg to release the documents to support his claim, and further release all meeting notes, memorandums, e-mails, documents and transcripts from its Immunization Safety Review Committee from 2001 to 2004, including all closed-door meetings, which have been previously unavailable to the public. I also ask that Dr. Fineberg and the IOM join with other scientists, policymakers, legislators and advocates to demand that the CDC allow independent scientists to study the Vaccine Safety Datalink (which contains the vaccine and medical records of 6 million children). Instead, the CDC has closed the VSD to outside scientists, and has persistently defied federal law, congressional demands and appeals from the scientific community to open it.


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